Cuff-button link.



No. 635,985. Patented Oct. 3|, I899.

C. TILGNER.

CUFF BUTTON LINK.

(Application' filed Dec. 20, 1898.)

(No Model.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES TILGNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CUFF-BUTTON LINK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,985, dated October31, 1899.

Application filed December 20, 1898. Serial No. 699,877. (1% model.)

T0 to whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, OHARLEs TILGNER, a citizen of the United States,residing in New York, (Brooklyn,) Kings county, State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Button Links, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates especially to devices employed for detachablyconnecting the two buttons in link cuff-buttons, (see United Statespatent to Brooks, No. 484,291, dated October 11, 1892, forcuff-button,)and has for its object the provision of a cud-button link very simpleand cheap in construction, easy of manipulation, and whereby the buttonsare effectually held against loss or displacement.

To attain the desired end, my invention consists, essentially, incertain novel and useful combinations or arrangements of parts andpeculiarities of construction and operation, all of which will behereinafter first fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure 1 is a sideelevation of my improved cuff-button link. Fig. 2 is a like View of thelink, illustrating its action when the eye of a button is connectedtherewith or disconnected therefrom.

Similar numerals of reference wherever they occur indicatecorrespondingparts in both figures.

The link made according to my invention may be formed of any suitablespring metal shaped into wire or other form which will adapt it toeasily pass through the eyes with which link cuff-buttons are usuallyformed. Each link is formed of a single piece of such spring metal bent,as will be described, so as to have two side bars 1 and 2 substantiallyparallel with each other and end bends 3 and 4. The end portions 5 and 6of the piece of spring metal from which the link is formed are notunited to form a closed link, but are rather separate one from the otherand are arranged, as shown in the drawings, to lie close side by side,one, 6, overlapping or lying outside of the other and both being pref-.erably arranged in the plane which includes the two side bars 1 and 2.The outermost end portion 6 terminates opposite one of the end bends,while the other end portion 5 lies advantageous for use with linkcuff-buttons, as it is one from which the button may easily be separatedand with which it may easily be connected whenever desired and yet whichholds the button with absolute security under the conditions of use. Itwill be observed that the opening into the link is at one end and thatthe link at this end is formed of two overlying portions of the metal ofwhich the link is formed, so that any longitudinal pull upon the linkcannot possibly open the link to allow the button to escape. The end ofthe inner portion 5 may be flattened or otherwise shaped, so as toprevent the eye of the buttpn accidentally catching thereon, while theend of the other portion 6 maybe slightly curved outward to facilitatethe introduction of the button-eye.

It will thus be seen that myimproved link is very simple in constructon,and as there is no chance for the eye of the button to work under theinner extremity of the metal of the link the danger of loss of thebuttons is effectually obviated, and owing to the shape of the link nodifficulty is experienced in plac ing the buttons in position orremoving the same at pleasure.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An open link for cuff-buttons, formed of a single piece of springmetal, having side bars and end bends, the end portions of the saidpiece of metal lying side by side, one overlapping the other, and theoutermost end portion terminating opposite one of the end bends, wherebythe link is double at such open end, substantially as set forth.

2. An open link for cuff-buttons formed of a piece of spring metal andhaving side bars and end bends, the end portions of the said piece ofmetal lying side by side, and one overlapping the other, the outermostend portion terminating opposite one of the end bends, and the inner endportion lying inside of and parallel with one of the side bars, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me at New York, N. Y., this 30th day of November, 1898.

CHARLES TILGNER.

Witnesses:

A. M. PIERCE, C. A. PIERCE.

